Tenon, the UK consolidator accountancy company, has promoted tax advsiers Marc Abrams, Ken Mawdsley and Elisabeth Hunter to Associate Director grade.
Interesting times for Tenon, which has announced that it will be going private with the MD , Andy Raynor, leading the MBO. There were some who thought a floated accountancy firm run along […]
KPMG has appointed Tom Brown as UK Head of Investment Management and Funds. He leads a team of 200 professionals based in London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol, who provide tax, audit and advisory services to clients who include most of the top 10 global investment managers and top 10 European hedge funds. Tom is […]
KPMG LLP, the UK member firm of KPMG International, today reported operating profits of £305 million for the financial year ended 30 September 2005. This represents an increase of 21 percent compared with the previous year (2004: £253 million)
Grant Thornton have announced that Clare Hartnell is to succeed Neil Sturmey as head of the UK firm’s Property and Construction Group.
Clare Hartnell assumed her new role from 1 January 2006 and she will divide time between her national leadership role and her client-facing role as a London tax partner. Michael Cleary, CEO […]
Leo Ingenhaag, formerly the managing partner (and founder) of Ingenhaag LLP in London, is joining CLB Littlejohn Frazer as a consultant to their tax division. Mr Ingenhaag is renowned for his expertise in advising underwriting members of Lloyds..
Ernst & Young has hired Daniel Eyre, an M&A tax specialist and Frank Buffone who is an expert in R&D tax from Deloitte London.
Also joining E&Y is John Cooney who was formerly Head of Corporate Tax at Smith & Williamson.
Baker & McKenzie LLP announced today that its has strengthened its London Corporate Tax team with the addition of Richard Fletcher, who has extensive experience in transfer pricing. He joins the Firm from LECG, where he was a director. Richard, a chartered accountant, spent 16 years working with Arthur Andersen including a period advising on […]
Independent Birmingham based firm, Eden Currie, has hired Caroline Webb as tax director. Caroline was formerly a tax partner with Bentley Jennison in Birmingham.
Eden Currie will now have 6 directors leading the growth of the firm. In addition to Caroline Webb, the tax practice includes Trisha Finnemore who is the tax manager.
Julia Wilson has been offered the Deputy FD job at 3i. Julie is tax trained from Andersen London (in fact she joined the year after me), and moved into industry quite early on, working at Hanson, Tomkins and then Cable & Wireless, where she was Head of Tax and later Head of Corporate Finance. At […]
Noel Corcoran, who has led his own Dublin based tax consulting firm since 1984, has been appointed to the board of NewGen Technologies. NewGen manufactures, processes and distributes premium biofuels that are intended to dramatically reduce the ecological and economic impact of world petroleum use. Sounds like a worthy cause to me.
Over the last […]
Specialist tax recruiting firm, Longman Tax Recruitment, has hired Louise Gibson as Associate Director. Louise joins Longman from the Manchester office of Hays Taxation.
Longman Tax Recruitment is based in the North West and services clients across the North of England. The MD, Mike Longman, was formerly Head of Tax at Baker Tilly Manchester and […]
Trans-Tasman law firm, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, has appointed Joanne Dunne as a tax partner, bringing the number of tax partners nationally to 3 and total partners to 33.
Joining the country’s leading national tax practice, Joanne has over a decade of experience advising clients in all aspect of taxation law, including cross border […]
A high profile lawyer who is believed to be the UK’s only tax qualified litigator, Karen Eckstein, is joining Watson Burton as a partner. Karen has moved from Beachcroft Wansbroughs.
Karen’s dual qualifications as a qualified solicitor and chartered tax practitioner mean that she can expertly advise clients on litigious matters involving tax. She […]
Integral Search, a London based search firm, has hired Mark Klein to build up its in-house tax recruitment capability. Integral has hitherto had a reputation as primarily servicing accountancy and law firms for senior tax hires. This appointment will give them a foot in the lucrative in-house tax recruitment market. Klein joins them from Brewer […]
Connetics, a Palo Alto pharmaceutical firm focused on dermatology products has hired a new tax director, Brian Davis. I am trying to find out where Mr Davis came from, so if anyone knows, please add a comment or email me. Thanks.
King & Spalding (for those of you who do not know the firm) is a US law firm with 800 lawyers and offices in Atlanta, Houston, NY, Washington DC and London. They represent more that half of the Fortune 100.
The London office has announced a number of strategic expansion plans, including a new service […]
White & Case has lured two high profile tax litigators from Akin Gump to join their Washington DC practice. Michael Quigley will be joining to head the firm’s US tax controversy practice and Brian Gleicher is coming in as counsel. Two tax associates are also following with the move.
David Harkness has been promoted to Global Head of Tax at Clifford Chance. Mr Harkness joined the firm in 1987 as a trainee and has taken over from Douglas French. The firm has over 200 tax lawyers across its international network of offices which makes Mr Harkness responsible for a pretty impressive fee base.
Nauta has lost tax partner Roderick Bouwman from its Rotterdam office. Bouwman will be joining DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
These are indeed tough times for Dutch law firms. Over the past year most firms have had to trim the breadth of their practice areas and/or reduce partner headcount. Nauta, for example, closed its private […]
Leading international law firm Dewey Ballantine has hired Abraham Shashy Jnr into its Washington office. Mr Shashy was formerly with KPMG and also served as IRS Chief Counsel during the early 90’s. He has particular expertise in tax controversy and transactional tax planning.
Well regarded London tax partner, Charles Elphicke, has resigned from Reed Smith to join Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Mawe